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Monday, December 16, 2013

Six words that most k-pop fans don't know how to use

For
those of you who find yourself agreeing with this anonymous commenter
above, you'll probably not be surprised to know that this is not a
recent development and I've actually always been an annoying cuntfaced
asshole that people hate. One of the things that used to annoy others a
lot about me when I was younger is that I actually knew how to use
English properly from a really young age. However, I might be a cunt, but I'm not a fuckin' cunt,
so it's time to help k-pop fandoms everywhere and give something back,
by highlighting some of the ways in which people who write and discuss
k-pop use words incorrectly.

1. UNDERRATED/OVERRATED

What the word actually means:

How k-pop fans use it: to describe whatever the hell they want.

All the members of the most popular k-pop girl group ever are "underrated" somehow. All of them.

The poor dears. Look at them here, probably at some "underrated" award show I'm sure nobody has ever heard of.

Don't you just feel sorry for them? Whenever will these special snowflakes get enough attention and praise?

In fact lots of k-pop idols are underrated, including obscure people like these...

I'd
talk more about BigBang and how underrated they are but I wouldn't want
to appear hipster and alienate everyone who hasn't heard of this
shockingly underrated group...

...with all their weird songs nobody listens to...

WELL THEY CAN'T DO A VIDEO AND PROMOTIONS FOR EVERY FUCKING SONG THEY HAVE, YOU DUMBASS.

Of course, don't give me too much money, or I might become "overrated", like... you know, the members of SNSD:

...and don't forget BigBang:

Overrated/underrated
by WHO, anyway? Is there some kind of official "ratings body" that is
rating all these people? How are they being rated? Does someone keep
track of all this? Or is it possible that they're both overrated and underrated at the same time, by the same people?

THANKS
FOR FUCKING UP ALL THESE "RATINGS" I WAS TRYING TO KEEP TRACK OF. It's
all too fucking confusing for me. Why not just say "I like this" or "I
think this is shit" instead or worrying about "ratings" that don't even
fucking exist and that nobody except you cares about.

2. FLOP

What the word actually means:

How k-pop fans use it: to describe any fucking thing at all that they just don't happen to like.

Really?

I hope my music career starts flopping this hard. Why
not just say "I don't like [insert group here]" instead? It's okay,
you're allowed to not like a group for whatever petty reason you think
is important.

Of course there's also "cheap" in the sense of "looking like a $2 stripper"
but then I don't understand how that's a bad thing in these sexually
enlightened times. Some people like "cheap whore sexy" like just some
others like "classy sexy" and there's nothing wrong with that because
everyone has different sexual tastes. I'm sure forward-thinking k-pop
fans would agree that one isn't intrinsically better than the other and
to say otherwise is judging people based on sexual preference and is
therefore wrong and bad. Isn't that right?

4. RELEVANT/IRRELEVANT

What the word actually means:

Anyone
with a brain can already see a problem here. Who gets to decide what
"the matter at hand" is? Obviously Group A is relevant if you're a fan
of Group A because Group A is the "matter at hand", whereas if you're a
fan of Group B, Group A is suddenly "irrelevant".

Therefore the biggest group in the world can easily be "irrelevant" if you not a fan of them:

The
word "relevant" however doesn't mean anything on its own. Something
can only be relevant TO something else, it can't be "relevant" in and of
itself. A banana is relevant if you're hungry. It's also potentially
relevant if there isn't a dildo handy nearby, or you ran out of weed and want to try something new.
However a banana is not universally relevant because relevance is not a
property that can be universally bestowed, but requires context.

For example if you're not into girls you may not find the above picture relevant.

5. USELESS/USEFUL

What the word actually means:

K-pop fans use it to talk about members in groups:

Everyone
has a use in k-pop as the reply deftly demonstrates, although he evaded
talking about Hwayoung because he didn't want to be rude and just say
"she's good for her rack and nothing else whatsoever"...

...BUT
THAT'S STILL A "USE", ANYWAY. Please debut in acting soon, Hwayoung,
my fap folder with your name on it hasn't been updated in a while.

6. DELUSIONAL

What the word actually means:

How k-pop fans use it - to refer to anything they disagree with.

Of course there IS a lot of well-documented delusion going on with many k-pop fans. Anyone who follows Anti Kpop-Fangirl should surely know this. However the word "delusional" has sadly been co-opted by
the delusional to refer to anything which doesn't match their
delusions, and thus has lost almost all of its usefulness and relevancy,
this extremely cheap usage of this overrated flop word has made it irrelevant.

Gangkiz's MV notched up a huge budget mainly through travel costs for staff and crew. However given that they were shooting the T-ara photobook and docos at the same time as doing the Gangkiz videos, you really have to divide the final figure by three. Don't know about CL's video, set design is certainly great but I don't see over half a mil there.

After School's Japanese singles are usually some of the greatest songs in musical history, so I'm quite excited for this. I like the beat already, though hopefully they won't pull a Starship ent on us and make the song sound nothing like it does in the teaser. Teensy bit disappointed that Nana isn't blonde anymore as it was kind of her signature but I suppose it still looks good. E-Young is fucking hot btw.

When you think of how much a movie of the same length would cost to make, I think it's a realistic figure. The One Shot video doesn't look like much either but it's the length. Also anything with guns is always a fuckaround, takes days to shoot that stuff.

I really wanted to write a decent comment worthy of this article, as it is clearly one of the most accurate descriptions of biased netizen mindset.But then you posted Yura gifs and now I only have one hand left to write this comment.